Hi, On 05/06/2011 02:03 PM, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Just replying to my own post with a new idea I got from myself. :-) > >> Your approach ... really comes down to including a tiny static library in the >> source, and has all the problems that come with it. > ... >> [M]y approach is similar to using an external shared library, with all the >> benefits that come with it. > > We can also use a real shared library[1]. This has several benefits and > one major drawback: > > Benefits: > - No special code is required at the start of the game. > - Other functionality is easier to add, such as using a highscore server > (locally or on the net). > - Highscore parsing code is taken out of the game to a central place, > which allows us to really close the security hole of badly written games > (as far as high score files are concerned). > > Drawback: > - The current code that has already been written by the Fedora people is > not usable, and must be replaced by calls into the library. In fact, > this may mean significant rewriting work for each game. > > The benefits are nice, but the drawback is huge. I would like to agree > the following about games with a central highscore file: > - New games and games for which this is initially implemented should be > written to use the shared library. > - Games which already use their own system should be patched using the > method Fedory uses. > - It is considered an improvement, but not a priority, to patch games to > use the shared library instead of their own handling, and thus to move > from the sgid-safe patch to the shared library patch. > I like +1 > I've updated the wiki page on freedesktop.org about upstream to talk > about this: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream > Please feel free to change it. Ooh you've actually started a wiki page +1 for that too :) > The library interface I am proposing there is: > * Get the current list of highscores. > * Register a callback to be notified of changes to a list of highscores. > * Unregister the callback. > * Free the list. > * Send a new score, which is potentially a highscore. Returns: position > in the high score list. Did you check if we're not re-inventing the wheel here? IOW if there not already is some generic highscore sharing server + client-lib somewhere already ? Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ games mailing list games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/games
